Dear List: WARNING! PELIGRO! ACHTUNG! ATTENTION! THIS IS AN OFF-TOPIC POST! HIT DELETE _NOW_ IF YOU DON'T READ SUCH THINGS!! Dear Bill, You may not get this, as _I_ am conceited enough to think I might be on your list of blocked addresses, but as a newly promoted and thus heady-with-power member of the "Baloney Bunch" I feel compelled to comment. If I may quote and respond to some other responses to the -->off-topic<-- thread. ---------- Guy Nichols wrote: >Mr. Bremmer, > Our little chapter is meeting Tuesday evening, and I spent a bit of the >day sorting through HT posts. <snip> > The sad thing is, that for the meeting tomorrow night, I don't think I can include any of your knowledgeable posts. It would take me too long to edit out the sarcasm, sourness, verbal inharmonicity, and outright nastiness. A shame, really. For those in our chapter that aren't on the list, <snip> To which I sadly can only comment: Winnowing the wheat from the chaff of many of your posts in the past has indeed been a long and harrowing task. ---------- Carl Root added: >I've enjoyed the last couple posts you've written. You're right about this !! It has nothing to do with piano technology. Please folks, be professional. :-) I must say I agree, it isn't piano technology. It started out >>>clearly marked as off-topic<<<!!! It was basically a light hearted way to improve communication among the list, more and more of whom do not have English as their first language. As someone who claims a sideline of translation to a language which uses accents, Bill, I would think you would encourage (or at least tolerate) greater knowledge amongst the rest of us. As you read the word "garc,on", wouldn't it be nicer if I had found the code for a c-cedilla instead of using a comma? As I recall, there is an educational theory which says basically that you learn more, and more easily, when you are having fun. Wouldn't it be horrible if one actually learned better communication skills? ------- As off-topic as some threads may get, DAMN, if some people don't pick up something and go off into what _is_ a technical subject. Witness the query about the SAT book. Gordon Rumson asked: >What temperaments will you use? I stuck with the 18th century well >tempered one. I translated some of the figures from Jorgensen's book. >Please excuse my ignorance, but what is the SAT book? -------- Carl Root went on to say: >(psst, bill...... let somebody else do it next time. maybe this will get discussed at providence. don't get to the point where you enjoy this kind of post. :-) ) Here's when I finally get to the main reasons I had for responding to you. Some on this list do realize that,unfortunately, somehow you _do_ seem to enjoy those posts. There are people on this list who will want to hear lectures and demonstrations on historical temperaments when they are at the Providence Institute in July. Among them there may be some who could wish to see and hear my old friend and mentor Owen Jorgensen, but may stay away because of _your_ well documented attitudes and communication methods. It would seem to this hinterland hick that you are doing a disservice to your mission of educating the world about HT's by _your_ inability to keep personal feelings of condescension out of your posts. Sincerely, Conrad Unofficial and uncompensated spokesperson for the Baloney Bunch. (Ironic how it's initials are the same as yours, huh?) Conrad Hoffsommer Office - (319) 387-1204 Luther College Music Dept Fax - (319) 387-1076 700 College Drive Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045 hoffsoco@martin.luther.edu If I had multiple personality disorder, my resume would make more sense.
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